Speaker: Heather Curtis (Tufts University)

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In Short, the Republic: Florus and the (Re)Written Republic

This paper explores the legacy of ab urbe condita historiography under the Principate. Beginning with Fabius Pictor, historiography was born in Rome as a practice that sought to record the entire timeline of Roman history, yet this traditional mode of writing found both apex and end in Livy. After the Ab Urbe Condita, imperial Latin writers turned to abbreviated formats (i.e. epitomes) to write histories that attempted to record the full Roman timeline. Using Florus’ Epitome as a case study, the paper...

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Dror Wahrman (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem), The Prince, the Jeweler and the Mogul: The Paradoxes on an Early Modern Object". Sponsored by the Early Modern History Workshop. Please register here: https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJApcuqspzwpGtKqc-gQcsVjIny7xJSIUArV Read more about Dror Wahrman (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem), "The Prince, the Jeweler and the Mogul: The Paradoxes on an Early Modern Object".

The workshop on “Administrating differences: Recent Scholarship on Indigenous and Afro-Latin America” will feature a discussion of Paulina Alberto. “Black Legend: “El Negro” Raúl Grigera and Racial Storytelling in Modern Argentina” (forthcoming manuscript), with author present. Please email therzog at fas.harvard.edu if you wish to participate in this event. Read more about Administrating differences: Recent Scholarship on Indigenous and Afro-Latin America, with Paulina Alberto

The workshop on “Administrating differences: Recent Scholarship on Indigenous and Afro-Latin America” will feature a discussion of Adriana Chira, “Peripheral Freedoms: Afro-Descendant Cubans, Law, and Racial Identity, 1791-1868 (forthcoming manuscript), with author present. Please email therzog at fas.harvard.edu if you wish to participate in this event. Read more about Administrating differences: Recent Scholarship on Indigenous and Afro-Latin America, with Adriana Chira

The workshop on “Administrating differences: Recent Scholarship on Indigenous and Afro-Latin America” will feature a discussion of Yuko Miki, Frontiers of Citizenship: A Black and Indigenous History of Postocolonial Brazil. New York: Cambridge University Press,  2018, with author present. Please email therzog at fas.harvard.edu if you wish to participate in this event. Read more about Administrating differences: Recent Scholarship on Indigenous and Afro-Latin America, with Yuko Miki

 

Daniel Blank (Harvard Society of Fellows), "Tense Futures: Shakespeare's Macbeth and Gwinne's Tres Sibyllae". Co-sponsored by the Renaissance Colloquium, Dept of English, and the Early Modern History Workshop. Please register here:

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The workshop on “Administrating differences: Recent Scholarship on Indigenous and Afro-Latin America” will feature a discussion of Jeffrey Alan Erbig, Jr. Where Caciques and Mapmakers Met. Chapel Hill: UNC Press, 2020, with author present. Please email therzog at fas.harvard.edu if you wish to participate in this event. Read more about Administrating differences: Recent Scholarship on Indigenous and Afro-Latin America, with Jeffrey Alan Erbig Jr.

The workshop on “Administrating differences: Recent Scholarship on Indigenous and Afro-Latin America” will feature a discussion of José Carlos de la Puente Luna. Andean Cosmopolitans. Seeking Justice and Reward at the Spanish Royal court. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2018, with author present. Please email therzog at fas.harvard.edu if you wish to participate in this event. Read more about Administrating differences: Recent Scholarship on Indigenous and Afro-Latin America, with José Carlos de la Puente Luna

The workshop on “Administrating differences: Recent Scholarship on Indigenous and Afro-Latin America” will feature a discussion of Byron Ellsworth Hamann. Bad Christians, New Spains. Muslims, Catholics, and Native Americans in a Mediterratlantic World. London and New York: Routledge, 2020, with author present. Please email therzog at fas.harvard.edu if you wish to participate in this event.

Read more about Administrating differences: Recent Scholarship on Indigenous and Afro-Latin America, with Byron Ellsworth Hamann

Legal history workshop presents Emanuele Conte (Università Roma Tre, Italy and EHESS, Paris), “Legal pluralism: from history to theory and back.” Please email Jamie Grischkan at jgrischkan at law.harvard.edu if you wish to participate in this event.

The Legal History Workshop presents Thomas J. McSweeney (William & Mary Law School), "Writing the Common Law in Latin in the Late Thirteenth Century." Please email Jamie Grischkan at jgrischkan@law.harvard.edu if you wish to participate in this event.

The workshop on “Administrating differences: Recent Scholarship on Indigenous and Afro-Latin America” will feature a discussion of Larissa Brewer García. Beyond Babel: Translations of Blackness in Colonial Peru and New Granada. Cambridge & New York: Cambridge University Press, 2020, with author present. Please email therzog at fas.harvard.edu if you wish to participate in this event.

The Legal History Workshop presents Elizabeth Kamali (Harvard Law School), “The Horrible Sepulture of Mannes Resoun: Drunkenness and the Medieval English Common Law.” Please email Jamie Grischkan at jgrischkan at law.harvard.edu if you wish to participate in this event.

Renee Raphael (University of California at Irvine), "The communications circuit of bureaucratic knowledge: Production crises and refining innovations in late 16th-century Potosi." Please email emework@fas.harvard.edu if you wish to participate in this event.